Second Chance

Chapter 16

A/N:

Thank you everyone for the wonderful reviews! I got a review from Evanescence1422 asking why Izzy is 7 and a half, even though Bella just died recently. I'm afraid that I cannot answer that question yet, as it will be explained further on. But there IS a reason. :) Please enjoy!

Last chapter:

Izzy's Point of View:

I saw his eyes: They didn't look at me with blame or accuse, but with a sense that I reminded him of something that caused his pain.

Izzy's Point of View:

"Good morning, Izzy!" greeted Emmett as I stepped through the doors leading into the kitchen. I saw Jasper and Emmett and Esme gathered around the kitchen island in the middle.

"Good morning, Emmett," I replied back. Alice was beside me. Alice woke me up this morning, and gave me some new clothes and told me to put them on. It was great to wear something new, since I had been wearing the same thing since the accident.

I sat down at the kitchen table, and Esme placed a plate in front of me. Waffles. Esme was such a good cook.

Like always, though, I asked everyone around me if they had eaten yet.

"We ate before you came down here," they all said, smiling.

I smiled back, but somehow I could tell that was far from the truth.

But anyway, I pushed that to the back of my mind, and ate my waffles, thanking Esme.

After breakfast, Emmett said, "So, Izzy. You ready to spend the day with me?"

I looked up. "Day with you?"

"Well, Alice got you yesterday, and today's my day to spend time with you. Do you remember?"

"Oh, yeah!" I exclaimed. Today I was going to spend with Emmett.

Alice poked Emmett in the ribs with her elbow. "So what are you guys going to do?"

"We're going camping!" exclaimed Emmett.

Camping? "But what about bears?" I asked, afraid. My dad always said that there were bears in the woods. But maybe he was kidding…but still. "Won't they eat us?"

Emmett laughed, a laugh that echoed in the kitchen. "Not if I eat them first!"

I stared at him. Emmett was kidding, that much I knew. But…that was the first time I've heard that. My dad would always say that he would bring a fish or something to throw to lure the bear away, and then we would run away.

"He's kidding, sweetheart," said Esme who was scrubbing dishes. She turned around and eyed Emmett.

Emmett coughed. "Yeah, I was kidding. No one eats bears around here, right?"

Everyone in the kitchen laughed—a forced laugh, I could tell.

After I was done, Alice motioned to me to join her in the living room.

"I need to help you pack," she explained.

Alice led me out of the kitchen, but not before I heard Jasper mutter to Emmett, "Nice going, Emmett."

After lunch, Emmett and I loaded all of our stuff into his red jeep. I was amazed at how big it was. I had never ridden in a jeep before. It looked like the jeep was made for going over dirt roads leading into the woods.

I found out that the Cullens had a lot camping stuff, from tents to the kind of food that you ate outdoors, to sleeping bags and warm, thick blankets. I guessed that they must like to go camping.

When I voiced that aloud, they all smiled and said yes, they did like to go camping.

So Emmett and I packed a large tent, many blankets, food, and sleeping bags. Alice packed me some new pajamas she bought me, and then we fit them in the back of Emmett's jeep.

Right before we left, Emmett dug into his pockets and fished out his cell phone and placed it in the living room.

"No technology allowed in the woods," he said, smiling.

We waved goodbye to Rosalie, Alice, Jasper, and Esme. We would be back tomorrow morning.

Carlisle was at work, and Edward was still asleep, so said Alice.

Emmett buckled me in the jeep—there were so many safety belts—and then hopped in himself.

We drove out of Forks, and then an hour later, we started hitting the dirt road.

Emmett kept me entertained, always making me laugh with his silly jokes.

When we were on the road for about two and a half hours, and the sun was high in the sky, Emmett said, "Dam—dang. I forgot to ask Alice what the weather would be like."

I looked at him. "Why do you need to ask Alice what the weather is?"

"U-uh...because the weather channel is Alice's favorite channel. She is the one in our family who can always tell us the weather."

"Oh," I responded, and looked to my right out the window and at the passing trees.

Emmett sighed, and looked straight ahead toward the road.

We arrived at our camping spot thirty minutes later, and while I looked around, Emmett set up tent. He put the sleeping bags outside, in the middle of camp, and then prepared to find some firewood.

After a while, he came back and soon, he had a fire running.

We sat around the fire as the sun slowly melted away behind the trees. After dinner, which consisted of some hamburger patties that Emmett cooked over the fire, Emmett surprised me with a bag of chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows. Emmett found some sticks, and we made s'mores.

When I finished off my fourth s'more, something suddenly plop-ed onto my head. I looked up, and something wet dropped in my eye. Seconds later, more raindrops started falling.

"Emmett, it's raining," I exclaimed, letting the rain fall onto my face.

"Ah, now that puts a damper on our camping trip. We have to go home, Izzy. It looks like the rain will just get worse. I wish Alice could have told me this…"

"Ah, okay," I murmured. I didn't want to leave, even though I knew it would be the sensible thing to do.

"But hey, we could go camping indoors when we go home," he said, and I perked up.

"Really? I've never done that before."

"Well this will be your first time, then."

Emmett suddenly picked me up, and put me on his back, and rushed me back to the jeep.

He buckled me in once again, since I could not untangle the many belts, and told me that he would go and pack up.

I sat in the jeep, thinking it would be a long time until Emmett was done, since it had taken him a long time to set up.

But, however, I was proven wrong.

I heard Emmett open up his door not five minutes later.

"Wow, you're fast," I observed.

Emmett grinned, and shook his head, raindrops getting all over his car—and me.

"Let's go," he said, and stared up the jeep.

I felt that we had gotten back to the Cullen home in less time than it had taken us to get to our camping spot in the first place, but I thought that was only because I couldn't see the trees outside the window.

When we went through the door, I gasped when I saw the surprise waiting inside.

The couches were pushed against the wall, and there was a tent in the middle of the living room. Right in front of the tent, was a fake fire, powered by electricity.

Alice greeted us when we came through the doors.

"Hello Emmett, hello Izzy. The weather channel told me that it was going to rain, and I knew Emmett was going to suggest that you and him go camping indoors. So I saved you the trouble of setting up."

I looked around at the setup. It looked just like how Emmett set up the camp in the woods. I rushed over to Alice.

"Thanks, Alice!" I threw my arms around her waist. Alice seemed startled for a second, but then I felt her own arms on my back.

"No problem, Izzy."

Alice left us alone, saying that the purpose of this was so Emmett and me could spend some time together. When Emmett and I settled in our sleeping bags around the fake fire—we didn't want to go into the tent—Emmett turned off all the lights in the house, making it seem like we were in the middle of nowhere, where there were no lights. Emmett went behind the tent, did something, and the sounds of the woods flooded the living room.

"Just to make it seem more real," he explained.

Emmett and I then lay in our separate sleeping bags, and we ended up waving flashlights at the Cullen's high ceiling and making shadows.

After a while, I felt my eyes droop, and I let my flashlight drop to my side. I heard the click of another flashlight, and then mine turned off with a click, too.

I fell asleep then.

I was aware when I was asleep, that I was no longer in my sleeping bag downstairs in the living room. Someone had carried me upstairs and put me on my bed. At least, I think it was my bed.

I opened my eyes a little bit, and was surprised to see blue. I snapped my eyes wide open.

Blue. Light blue—baby blue covering my walls.

I sat up, wrapping the covers around me, as it was chilly.

All four walls were painted with a shade of light/baby blue. I could faintly smell the paint fumes. My walls also sparkled, like the paint had glitter in it.

On the walls, there were cut outs of flowers, and above me, there were glow-in-the-dark stars. On the left side of the room was a white, wooden dresser, with a mirror and several drawers. There was a table the same shade near the window, and a table near my bed the same shade. I guessed that this was all part of the same package.

Then I looked down at the bed, and saw that it wasn't the bed I had slept on before. It was at least twice the size of the old one, and looking up, I saw that there was a net above me.

It was a canopy bed. The sheets and blankets were blue and white, which matched my furniture and walls. At least, I guessed that it was my room. Unless someone had carried me to a different room, this looked just like the old room.

I walked to my closet and opened it. It was filled with clothes that looked as if they fit me.

Inside my closet was also a bookshelf that contained a few fairy tales.

What was going on?

I had only disappeared for a couple of hours—not even a day—and I came back to the room that I was staying in to find it completely changed.

The clue that told me that this was made into my own room was the sign on the wall, near the door.

In large, white, wooden letters, spelled the name, Izzy.

A/N:

Well, did you like the little moment between Emmett and Izzy? Can you guess who transformed Izzy's room? Haha…

Anyway, I have a poll up on my profile (at least, I hope it works, it's my first time) that asks whether or not I should include werewolves in this story. I can work with it either way. So please go and vote, or you can drop me your opinion in a PM.

The next few chapters will just be mainly Izzy getting to know each Cullen individually, and I'll probably—maybe—skip ahead a year or so.

Anyway, I sincerely apologize that it took me so long to get an update. My excuse is homework and school, but that probably doesn't count as a good excuse. ;)

Thank you everyone who read this chapter and story! Please review!

*Moonlight-Wolfe*